We're all going to die..

[Lobos 10]

Death is like sleeping with no dreams, think how tranquil that is dead for ever and ever you're only here for a short time then you are gone out like a light nothingness blackness,your body rots and decays and there is no getting away from it,so make the most of the short time you are here and try and do something constructive with your life....no one escapes the grim reaper.

[Waldo 96]

It's not death but the run up to it. I am rather afraid of old age and being dependent on other people. I've been quite shocked at some people's animosity towards old people on other threads on here, and I've seen it with my own eyes on the street.

 

Extreme old age is not very attractive, and we live in a very visual age where appearance is all. These wrinkled old people still have feelings and need love and care, yet some people seem to despise (and fear?) them.

 

Yet people don't seem to realise that it could be them in a few years.

Would they want to be treated badly in old age?

I just don't understand it. What happened to 'do as you would be done by?'

It's really worrying.

 

Let's be honest, we live in an age of BS. How is worrying going to help or change the situation? All you're doing (when you worry) is to reduce the quality of each now moment you experience.

 

Accept.

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Odd, but "John Brown's Body" sums it up quite appositely.

[teeny 10]

Can you define what you mean by 'soul' ?

 

The soul is our unequeness and is part of us that goes to be with God when we die , if you believe that . I have a faith and at the end I know I have peace about my future and my faith helps me on a daily basis

[mjw47 10]

Death is like sleeping with no dreams, think how tranquil that is dead for ever and ever you're only here for a short time then you are gone out like a light nothingness blackness,your body rots and decays and there is no getting away from it,so make the most of the short time you are here and try and do something constructive with your life....no one escapes the grim reaper.

 

What about Hamlets soliloquy 'To be or not to be'

 

" To die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream; Aye there's the rub, for in that sleep of death who knows what dreams may come "

 

One of the most chilling lines in literature, the bard was good, give him that.

[SnailyBoy 10]

The soul is our unequeness and is part of us that goes to be with God when we die , if you believe that . I have a faith and at the end I know I have peace about my future and my faith helps me on a daily basis

 

Why do you believe that?

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Why do you believe that?

Because the Manufacturer's instructions say so.

[Lobos 10]

I'm personally not worried about dying Ive had a good life blessed with good health and the love of a good woman and family I just hope its quick when it comes to my turn, I'd like to shuffle off in my own bed with my family around me when I'm 90 or so,what upsets me more is as I get older how many of my loved ones family and friends have gone, what hit me more was when my father died then my beloved mother and father in law went all within a couple years.

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Because the Manufacturer's instructions say so.

Body + soul = alive.

Body without soul = dead.

[girlyblonde 10]

life is for living, however long we have, we are all going to die at some

point, I don't want to linger in a nursing home, ive worked in one and its not always a nice place to be,

[Anna B 1,414]

Let's be honest, we live in an age of BS. How is worrying going to help or change the situation? All you're doing (when you worry) is to reduce the quality of each now moment you experience.

 

Accept.

 

You're quite right about worrying. It's pointless. However treating our old people badly is surely something that we can do something about.

[Halibut 12]

For anyone who's interested in death and dying, there's a really excellent radio programme you should hear. It's the Reith Lecture on BBC R4. American doctor Atul Gawande talks about ageing and death and how we're getting it wrong - and more importantly, how we can do it better.

 

I urge you to take the time to listen to this - its 42 minutes and to comment on it here afterwards.